Yinzhen teased his daughter for a while, watching the sun gradually set, then he put the third princess down and entered the main hall with Ji Ling.
It was just after dusk at this time, and a drunken red sunset hung on the eaves of the Forbidden City. It was about to set. It was time to light the lanterns in the palace. The maids were walking under the eaves of the palace. In the Chengqian Palace, the lights were dim.
The yellow palace lanterns lit up one after another.
Yinzhen first went to Nuange to see his sixth brother.
Brother Six had just been fed by his wet nurse and was at his peak of energy. Two nuns were holding him, one was teasing him with a small doll, and the other was holding a lotus copper pot for Brother Six.
While I was ironing the diaper, I saw the Emperor and Concubine Chen coming in. The servants quickly knelt down to say hello.
Mammy hugged the sixth elder brother and waved his little hand to bow to Huang Ama.
Ji Ling said: "Let the emperor take a look at the sixth elder brother."
Mammy stood up and carefully handed Brother Six into Yinzhen's hands.
Brother Six could not speak yet, he just looked at Yinzhen and grinned.
Mammy was watching from the side and thought to herself that the two babies born by Concubine Chen, a son and a daughter, are really amazing! They cry endlessly on weekdays, but every time they see the emperor, he always looks like this, look at it
She looks like a New Year painting doll, plus a concubine Chen... How can the emperor not come to Chengqian Palace every two days?
Not long after Yinzhen held his sixth brother, the third princess became a little jealous.
She tugged on the purse string around Yinzhen's waist, trying to attract Huang Ama's attention, and kept shouting in a milky voice: "Huang Ama——! Huang Ama!"
Ji Ling smiled and hugged the third princess away.
She raised her head and looked at each other with Yinzhen. They held a son and a daughter in their hands, feeling peaceful and happy in their hearts.
After a while, Brother Six gradually fell asleep. Yinzhen saw that he had closed his eyes and carefully placed him on the small bed.
As a result, as soon as the sixth elder brother was put down, the third princess curiously reached out and pinched her brother's pink little face.
The sixth brother's face was very fleshy. When he fell asleep, the flesh naturally hung to one side, making him look like he had a piece of candy in his mouth.
He was pinched awake by his sister, unable to escape and unable to resist.
As a result, he clenched his fists tightly, blinked angrily, then grinned and cried.
Probably because he had just eaten, the sixth elder brother cried so loudly that he could hear it in the entire front hall and backyard of Chengqian Palace.
The mischievous third princess was frightened, shrank back, and hugged her royal mother's leg in a cowardly manner.
Ji Ling turned to look at Yinzhen with a look on her face, "Look! That's why two little dolls cannot be placed in the same room."
The sixth elder brother cried loudly, but Ji Ling hugged the third princess first. Seeing the wet nurse coming up to comfort the sixth elder brother, Yinzhen was a little puzzled. He raised his finger and pointed at the sixth elder brother and said: "The one who is crying is
Little one, why are you coaxing the older one first, Lingling?"
Ji Ling hugged the third princess and weighed it back and forth in her arms. Then she turned around, smiled and winked at Yinzhen, and said, "Your Majesty, you don't know. If you don't coax the elder one quickly, she will cry with her soon."
——It was really lively, except that the roof didn’t fall over! Your Majesty has never seen it, but I have seen it several times!”
It's hard to coax two babies crying together. You have to stabilize one of them first before you have the energy to comfort the other.
Seeing her confident look, Yinzhen smiled: "You have summed up your experience?"
Ji Ling had an expression of "Of course!" and kissed the third princess on the cheek again.
After my daughter's mood stabilized, sure enough, the sixth brother over there also stopped crying.
Ji Ling handed the third princess to Nanny Chen and her own wet nurse, and then gently pulled Yinzhen's sleeve and said: "Your Majesty, please come to the main hall. The pavilions on both sides are not quiet. I know the Emperor likes peace and quiet."
Yinzhen shook his head and smiled, stretched out his hand to hold Ji Ling's hand, and said gently: "It's okay, why do I find it so noisy? You gave birth to my children."
During dinner in the evening, Yinzhen went to Chengqian Palace to look around and said: "Lingling, now there is Hongxin in Dongnuan Pavilion and Xi'er in Xinuan Pavilion. The back hall is the same size as the front hall, but it is a pity that it is empty.
It can move people around."
He paused, picked up a chopstick dish himself, put it on the plate in front of Ji Ling, and then said: "I know you can't worry about Xi'er and Hongxin being alone in front of you, but I can help people connect the front and back, so you can
convenient."
The Fourth Master is a thorough activist with a strong execution ability. When one person said something, the other person immediately ordered Su Peisheng to bring the craftsmen over.
By the end of April, the structure between the front and back halls of the Chengqian Palace was the same as that of the Zhengda Guangming Hall in the Old Summer Palace, with the addition of a long wind and rain corridor on one side - in fact, it is not accurate to call it a wind and rain corridor, because there are two sides of the corridor.
In fact, it is closed, and the windows are carved with exquisite pear blossom patterns, which reflect the pear blossom tree in the backyard of Chengqian Palace.
It was the time when the pear blossoms were in bloom, and the falling flowers were like snow, flying in the air. Ji Ling specially asked Xiao Fenzi to ask the eunuchs not to sweep away the petals in the courtyard, and let her enjoy them for a while longer.
All the big items were moved out from Dongnuang Pavilion, and all kinds of furnishings were taken out from the warehouse. Ji Ling was always lazy in this kind of thing, so he left all the arrangements to Qixi.
As a result, Qixi commanded the palace people to decorate the main room in the back hall even more luxuriously than the front hall.
On the first day Ji Ling went in, he felt like his eyes were going blind.
Through the wind and rain corridor, she can go directly to the East and West Nuan Pavilion to watch the activities of a pair of children.
The small Buddhist hall was still reserved for her, but the other hut, which was originally intended to be used as a warehouse, was packed out for the maids who kept watch.
Those who can be by the side of the first palace empress, wait for her to sleep peacefully, and guard her are all the eldest maids who are most trusted by their master.
It was the second night after Ji Ling moved in that she realized the other meaning behind Fourth Master's arrangement - it was really inconvenient for her children to be around.
As a result, she had to ask Qixi to help her rub her waist and back for several mornings, and she didn't even want to get up to eat breakfast.
She lay on the bed, with a plate of pastries placed on the embroidered pier next to her. She stretched out her hands to pick up each piece and put it into her mouth.
Qixi rolled up her sleeves, her face turned slightly red, and a thin layer of sweat broke out on her forehead.
While rubbing her waist, she said seriously: "Master, looking at this momentum, maybe next year we will still have the seventh elder brother!"
Ji Ling choked on a mouthful of cake.
She hadn't paid much attention to the back hall before, but now that she had moved in, she discovered that the main room and the small study next to it were actually connected. There was a secret door with an exquisite design. It was hidden behind a landscape mural. If you didn't look carefully, you wouldn't know it at all.
I can't see the secret behind it.
This is equivalent to a small luxury suite.
She went in and took a look around. The study room was filled with books that Yinzhen had put here before. She planned to entertain herself with books if she had time when she came to Chengqian Palace on weekdays.
Ji Ling muttered and said to herself: Let me see what books Fourth Master is reading.
As a result, Ji Ling felt like dozing off just after flipping through five or six books - the bookshelves were all filled with Buddhist scriptures.